This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. His disappearances are spontaneous and his experiences are alternately harrowing and amusing. "The Time Traveler's Wife" depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's passionate love for each other with grace and humour. Their struggle to lead normal lives in the face of a force they can neither prevent nor control is intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099497066

Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger was born in the idyllic hamlet of South Haven, Michigan. Her family moved to Evanston, Illinois when she was young and she has lived near or in Chicago for most of her life.

In 1997 Niffenegger had an idea for a book about a time traveller and his wife. She originally imagined making it as a graphic novel, but eventually realized that it is very difficult to represent dramatic and sudden time shifts with still images. She began to work on the project as a novel, and published The Time Traveler's Wife in 2003 with the independent publisher MacAdam/Cage. It was an international bestseller, and became a movie starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. As of September 2013, a sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife is in the works.

Niffenegger's second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, was published in 2009. Alongside Niffenegger's novel-writing adventures, she has also produced graphic novels called The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. The Three Incestuous Sisters tells the story of three unusual sisters who live in a seaside house. She is currently working on a novel called The Chinchilla Girl in Exile, about a girl called Lizzie Varo, who suffers from hypertrichosis (excess body hair).